Comments on: Too Much Heaven?

By: Виктор Евсеев

Виктор Евсеев — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:07:24 +0000

На самом деле, как говорится – Без пользы жить – безвременная смерть.

By: Геннадий Новиков

Геннадий Новиков — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:45:02 +0000

Весьма тонко подмечено. В чем-то себя узнал

By: jimbob

jimbob — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:27:31 +0000

I certainly enjoy many aspects of this life (just check my garage for evidence!!!). That said, there are a lot of trends in the world these days that I’m starting to feel too tired to fight. So much unrighteousness and cynical selfishness in the world; so much evil. Sometimes we nearly despair of hope for our daughters’ futures… At times like that, I find myself weary of this life, and long to sink into the comforting arms of my Savior, where I won’t have to carry these burdens any more. Let it be the next generation’s problem; I just want to go home.

Is this wrong?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:57:47 +0000

“gold crowns with a jewel for each person we led to Jesus”

I have heard this said. Do you know where it comes from? — Jeff

Probably from the Wretched Urgency shtick that God will judge/reward believers ONLY on how many Souls They’ve Won (TM). The more Souls You Saved (TM), the more bragging rights and one-upmanship.

As for everything else, including “…my beautiful wife and wonderful children, go to work, read a good book, enjoy a ball game and walk my dog”,
your body groaning with mortality, and the cosmos waiting for renewal?
“It’s All Gonna Burn (TM).”

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:53:10 +0000

I was also brought up with the idea of streets of gold and mansions. Mine was going to be “a gold one that’s silver lined”. Imagine my disappointment when I found out the word really meant simply dwelling places or rooms. — Fred

Well, “rooms” does fit the imagery better than “mansions” — “My Father’s house has many rooms”.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:50:55 +0000

(Whenever I talked about whether we’d need a Bathroom of Life I was rebuked for mocking sacred things.) — K.W.Leslie

I got the same treatment for describing the doctrine of the Incarnation as “God Almighty having to squat down and take a crap behind a bush beside a dirt road in Galilee.”

Actually, I’d get one of two responses — total agreement or immediate Flesh-to-Pile-of-Rocks.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:44:30 +0000

As a Christian who doesn’t believe that salvation includes heaven-going at all (and I know what some of you are thinking… gasp!), I find it interesting to see how the church trends swing back and forth between a focus heaven-going and a focus on the (I believe, more Biblically-based) doctrine of the resurrection and the coming Kingdom on earth. I wonder if this is part of the beginning of a more resurrection-oriented trend in orthodox Christian circles?

For anyone who is wondering how a Bible-believing Christian could possibly not believe that the righteous go to heaven, you may wish to check out .

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:07:12 +0000

To bring it back to the present Christian world, I see (not so extreme) examples every day. In the Evangelical paradigm, everything has to be “spiritualized” to be of value. Every event of life must be interrupted as via the hand of God or that of Satan to have any meaning. — J Michael Jones

Why cannot “every event of life” just BE?

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:22:23 +0000

When I was in the Navigators in college, we were constantly reminded that our studies (at a secular university) were “worldly.” We were told to go out on evangelism or do Bible Study instead of studying academics and God will give you “A’s.” — J Michael Jones

When I was in college (late Seventies), the Navigators had a rep for being the most in-your-face Wretched-Urgency “Witnesses!” and having the highest burnout rate.

By: Kiwi and an Emu.

Kiwi and an Emu. — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:18:09 +0000

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